In today's fast-paced business environment, professionals are in need of instant access to information and the ability to communicate and collaborate with team members across continents quickly and easily. Join a panel of experts as they discuss the growing needs of business professionals today and the tools available for small, medium and large businesses that enable a flexible work environment, increase employee productivity and improve overall business efficiencies.

Using the microservice architectural paradigm allows you to develop a single application as a set of loosely coupled, collaborating services. Each service implements a set of narrowly related functions and communicates with lightweight mechanisms, such as a HTTP resource API.

Microservices are relatively small and easier for a developer to understand. They provide better architecture for large applications and better isolation for scalability and damage control. However, they contain more moving parts and are harder to test.

An API gateway provides a single, unified API entry point across one or more internal APIs. It adds an additional layer of protection to your microservices by providing protection from attack vectors.

It also enables support for mixing communication protocols and decreases microservice complexity by providing authorization using API tokens, access control enforcement, and rate limiting.

In this session the followings topics will be covered:
- What are microservices
- What are the pros and cons of using microservices
- What are API gateways
- What problems API gateways are solving
- How containers fit into microservice architecture paradigm
- How to orchestrate and configure microservices and API gateways easily

Running a single container on your laptop is super easy, running hundreds of containers in a production environment is definitely not.

Before moving to the production environment, users must find answers to dozens of questions:
- Where to store Docker images
- How to deal with sensitive data like passwords, API keys and certificates
- How to handle application states
- How load balancing should be done, etc.

One option is to use a DIY bare-bones Docker or Kubernetes setup or else use some higher-level container platform that provides solutions out-of-the-box.

In this session Lauri Nevala will talk about what is required and what aspects you need to take into an account when running containerized applications in production environments. He will also show you how to easily set up a production-grade container cluster and deploy containerized applications to the production environment with Kontena.

Presenter Lauri Nevala is a co-founder and software engineer at Kontena, Inc. He is a happy Ruby developer and DevOps guy and wants to maximize (other) developers' happiness by building Kontena - an easy to use container & microservices platform.

Last week it was uncovered that an intern at Apple leaked some of the iPhone's source code was leaked on GitHub.

The code was for iBoot, a component of the iPhone's OS. While it was an older version of iOS 9 and Apple has declared the leak shouldn't be of concern to the average user, the community has been scratching their heads wondering how sensitive code from a conglomerate like Apple could accidentally be made public.

We hear about data leaks and security breaches almost on a weekly basis now, but when it comes to something so widely used by global consumers, it poses an even bigger concern that human error could potentially have disastrous results.

Benchmarking storage performance is both an art and a science. In this 5th installment of the SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum’s “Storage Performance Benchmarking” series, our experts take on optimizing performance for various workloads. Attendees will gain an understanding of workload profiles and their characteristics for common Independent Software Vendor (ISV) applications and learn how to identify application workloads based on I/O profiles to better understand the implications on storage architectures and design patterns. This webcast will cover:
•An introduction to benchmarking storage performance of workloads
•Workload characteristics
•Common Workloads (OLTP, OLAP, VMware, etc.)
•Graph fun!

This webinar will reveal the results of Nemertes Research's latest comprehensive study on everything Unified Communications and Collaboration! We will provide insights into the characteristics of a successful UCC strategy and we will also cover:

• Optimal organizational and management strategies
• Platform trends and use of the cloud
• Cost comparisons for leading vendors and deployment strategies
• How to successfully implement team collaboration
• Enterprise plans for emerging technologies including AI and virtual reality
• The evolution of the conference room
• Plans for digital whiteboards
• The emergence of digital workplaces

You will gain insight into unified communications and collaboration deployment trends and costs--real-world costs for various vendor solutions and deployment scenarios, and the impact of using third-party management tools for UC operations and administration.

The containers and microservices industry has exploded in recent years. With companies like Docker blazing the trail, we've seen a huge expansion in the application container market with other open source platforms like Red Hat, Mesosphere, Kubernetes, CoreOS... and the list goes on. However, when it comes to major mergers and acquisitions, the containers market hasn't been high on the list of deals.

It was recently publicized that Red Hat is acquiring their fellow open source vendor CoreOS for $250 million. This deal will allow them to expand their share of the Kubernetes market and enhance their Kubernetes software management.

What does this type and size deal mean for such an emerging market? What are the possibilities, potential, and even ramifications for application container, cloud application, and cloud infrastructure providers?

In the enterprise, block storage typically handles the most critical applications such as database, ERP, product development, and tier-1 virtualization. The dominant connectivity option for this has long been Fibre Channel SAN (FC-SAN), but recently many customers and block storage vendors have turned to iSCSI instead. FC-SAN is known for its reliability, lossless nature, 2x FC speed bumps, and carefully tested interoperability between vendors. iSCSI is known for running on ubiquitous Ethernet networks, 10x Ethernet speed bumps, and supporting commodity networking hardware from many vendors.

As the storage world moves to more flash and other non-volatile memory, more cloud, and more virtualization (or more containers), it’s time to revisit one of the great IT debates: Should you deploy Fibre Channel or iSCSI? Attend this SNIA Ethernet Storage Forum webcast to learn:
•Will Fibre Channel or iSCSI deliver faster performance? Does it depend on the workload?
•How is the wire speed race going between FC and iSCSI? Does anyone actually run iSCSI on 100GbE? When will 128Gb Fibre Channel arrive?
•Can any server or storage array actually support more than 32Gb/s or 40Gb/s speeds?
•Do Linux, Windows, or hypervisors have a preference?
•Is one really easier [to install/manage] than the other, or are they just different?
•How does the new NVMe over Fabrics protocol affect this debate?

Join SNIA experts as they compare FC vs. iSCSI and argue in an energetic yet friendly way about their differences and merits of each.

RIDE supports developing in notebooks, editor, RMarkdown, shiny app, Bokeh and other frameworks. Supported by R-Brain’s optimized kernels, R and Python 3 have full language support, IntelliSense, debugger and data view. Autocomplete and content assistant are available for SQL and Python 2 kernels. Spark (standalone) and Tesnsorflow images are also provided.

Using Docker in managing workspaces, this platform provides an enhanced secure and stable development environment for users with a powerful admin control for controlling resources and level of access including memory usage, CPU usage, and Idle time.

The latest stable version of IDE is always available for all users without any need of upgrading or additional DevOps work. R-Brain also delivers customized development environment for organizations who are able to set up their own Docker registry to use their customized images.

The RIDE Platform is a turnkey solution that increases efficiency in your data science projects by enabling data science teams to work collaboratively without a need to switch between tools. Explore and visualize data, share analyses, all in one IDE with root access, connection to git repositories and databases.

In a recent survey of enterprise hybrid cloud users, the Evaluator Group saw that nearly 60% of respondents indicated that lack of interoperability is a significant technology-related issue that they must overcome in order to move forward. In fact, lack of interoperability was chosen above public cloud security and network security as significant inhibitors. This webcast looks at enterprise hybrid cloud objectives and barriers with a focus on cloud interoperability within the storage domain and the SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative to promote interoperability and portability of data stored in the cloud.

In this last of a 3 part webinar series presented by Greenlight, Micro Focus Product Management and Greenlight group will provide an overview of the current state of IT Operations Management technologies running on enterprise grade cloud native technology stacks. Join us, and come up to speed as the experts provide a high level overview of Network Operations, Hybrid Cloud, and Datacenter Automation suites from the Micro Focus ITOM portfolio running in a Docker & Kubernetes orchestrated environment.

Vivit launches their first ever SIG Talk event with three speakers who will give you insights into StormRunner Functional, Dynamic data handling in performance tests as well as AI and machine learning as it applies to testing.

We will discuss:

•How StormRunner Functional is the latest functional test offering from Micro Focus. In this session, Chris Trimper, an early adopter and beta tester, will share his experiences with this new product

•How Virtual Table Server (VTS), in days of Mercury Interactive, was the often-overlooked repository for dynamically updated real-time test data. Even after a revamp and relaunch in 2014, many people still don't use it, but they should. Richard's VTS demo will help you to get value from this great add-on for LoadRunner and Performance Center

•How Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning are rapidly impacting businesses and customers, enabling another massive shift through technology enablement. In this session, Todd DeCapua will share how these capabilities are being leveraged in Performance Engineering now, and into the future

Join us for the next Quality & Testing SIG Talk on Tuesday, January 9, 2018: http://www.vivit-worldwide.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1041157&group=.

Public, private and hybrid cloud are nothing new, but protecting sensitive data stored on these servers is still of the utmost concern. The NSA is no exception.

It recently became publicized that the contents of a highly sensitive hard drive belonging to the NSA (National Security Agency) were compromised. The virtual disk containing the sensitive data came from an Army Intelligence project and was left on a public AWS (Amazon Web Services) storage server, not password-protected.

This is one of at least 5 other leaks of NSA-related data in recent years. Not to mention the significant number of breaches and hacks we’ve experienced lately, including Yahoo!, Equifax, WannaCry, Petya, and more.

The culprit in this case? Unprotected storage buckets. They have played a part in multiple other recent exposures, and concern is on the rise. When it comes to storing data on public cloud servers like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Rackspace and more, what are the key responsibilities of Storage Architects and Engineers, CIOs and CTOs to avoid these types data leaks?

Tune in with Chris Vickery, Director of Cyber Risk Research at UpGuard and the one who discovered the leak, along with George Crump, Chief Steward, Storage Switzerland, David Linthicum, Cloud Computing Visionary, Author & Speaker, Charles Goldberg, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Thales e-Security, and Mark Carlson, Co-Chair, SNIA Technical Council & Cloud Storage Initiative, for a live panel discussion on this ever-important topics.

High-Performance Computing (HPC) paradigms were born from the need to apply sophisticated analytics to large volumes of data gathered. The rise of open source and increased affordable hardware offerings helped Big Data to become an alternative approach.

As HPC and Big Data continue their own trajectories, they borrow ideas and learn from each other. How does artificial intelligence impact this and how can these technologies benefit one another in 2018 and beyond?

Micro Focus Product Management and Greenlight group will dive into the details of Micro Focus’ Enterprise Grade IT Service Management Automation and Operations Bridge product suites - showcasing the most recent advances that ease bringing cloud native capabilities to the mainstream IT Operations organizations.

As the result of extensive primary end-user and multi-vendor research, including responses from 700+ IT decision makers, Taneja Group has learned that an increasing number of organizations are more motivated than ever before to move their applications in the cloud. However, they prefer to easily move those applications between on-premises and multiple clouds without having to modify the underlying storage infrastructure.

Join us as we unpack this emerging market category along with SoftNAS, one of the vendors at the forefront of this trend.

In this webinar we’ll cover:

• How multi-cloud primary storage can span multiple cloud environments and mitigate the risk of moving to the public cloud

• Lifting and shifting applications to a single public cloud or multiple public clouds without re-engineering the applications

About your hosts:
Taneja Group’s Senior Analysts Jeff Kato and Jeff Byrne will discuss the research behind the Taneja Group’s Multi-Cloud Primary Storage market category. They will be joined by Rick Braddy, Founder, CEO and CTO at SoftNAS, who will describe how the SoftNAS Cloud Data Platform provides the best pathway to shift applications among on-premises, AWS, and Azure clouds.

Join us for the first in a series of monthly webinars, presented by Greenlight Group, where Micro Focus and Greenlight Group will provide an introductory session of Micro Focus's container orchestrated IT Operations Management platform. In this webinar, Torrey Jones, Greenlight Group Principal Consultant, will talk through the basics of Micro Focus’s cloud native Container Deployment Foundation – a Docker and Kubernetes centric game changing platform for IT Operations Management in the Enterprise. Prior to diving into the topic of the hour, special guest Roy Ritthaler , VP, Marketing, IT Operations Management, will provide a short update of the New, Combined Micro Focus – post merger with HPE Software.

We’re all accustomed to transferring money from one bank account to another; a credit to the payer becomes a debit to the payee. But that model uses a specific set of sophisticated techniques to accomplish what appears to be a simple transaction. We’re also aware of how today we can order goods online, or reserve an airline seat over the Internet. Or even simpler, we can update a photograph on Facebook. Can these applications use the same models, or are new techniques required?

One of the more important concepts in storage is the notion of transactions, which are used in databases, financials, and other mission critical workloads. However, in the age of cloud and distributed systems, we need to update our thinking about what constitutes a transaction. We need to understand how new theories and techniques allow us to undertake transactional work in the face of unreliable and physically dispersed systems. It’s a topic full of interesting concepts (and lots of acronyms!). In this webcast, we’ll provide a brief tour of traditional transactional systems and their use of storage, we’ll explain new application techniques and transaction models, and we’ll discuss what storage systems need to look like to support these new advances.

And yes, we’ll explain all the acronyms and nomenclature too.

You will learn:

•A brief history of transactional systems from banking to Facebook
•How the Internet and distributed systems have changed and how we view transactions
•An explanation of the terminology, from ACID to CAP and beyond
•How applications, networks & particularly storage have changed to meet these demands

The rapid adoption of enterprise cloud-based solutions brings data integration as one of the greatest challenges. The challenge grows on increasingly numerous SaaS applications with lack of suitable connectors that fit your business needs. Join this webinar led by Primitive Logic team to see how data integration can be simplified for your cloud. This talk introduces the generic declarative zero-coding approach using Informatica Cloud Rest Connector as an example and illustrates its practical features, as well as best practices and hidden gems.

Cloud Security Protection is improving, but how can we protect against Evolving Security Threats? How can we win?

In this session we will delve into some of the security risks associated with cloud environments and what can be done to protect your applications and data that reside in the cloud by utilizing a new technology known as Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) as well as encryption and tokenization.

Join Ulf Mattsson, CTO of Atlantic BT, and his special guests David Morris, Security Scorecard, and Juanita Koilpillai, CEO, Waverley Labs, in this dynamic panel discussion and live Q&A.

What's next in the minds of organizations today after embarking on the Cloud hype?

Join this webinar to learn about Cloud Integration core concepts, strategies, evolution and adoption. We will review software-defined functional architecture, what's available in the marketplace, considerations, and where to start.

Cloud Integration is the process of configuring multiple cloud applications in a network enterprise and third party software. Adoption of such integrations have become critical in defining the success of organizations of all shapes and types.

Adoption to Cloud Integration allows businesses to unify functions in building unique understandings and capabilities creating opportunities in realizing value. Cloud Integration that’s offered as Software as a Service (SaaS) model is a thriving marketplace with connectors for APIs, data, security, monitoring, performance and business process management functions to name a few.

This presentation reviews core concepts around integration, Strategies, the iPaaS (integration platform as a service) buzz, how evolution of adoption is mashed by marketplace and provide an approach to defining value of integration for efficiency and business alignments.

Cloud computing is a general concept that incorporates software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and other recent well-known technology trends in which the common theme is reliance on the Internet for satisfying the computing needs of the users.

This channel features presentations by thought leaders who cover the key topic areas in this increasingly important field.